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A61121	A true and faithful relation of the proceedings of the forces of Their Majesties K. William and Q. Mary in their expedition against the French in the Caribby Islands in the West Indies under the conduct of His Excellency Christopher Codrington ... in the years 1689 and 1690 / written by Thomas Spencer, Jun., secretary to the Honourable Sir Timothy Thornhill ...	Spencer, Thomas, secretary to Sir Timothy Thornhill.	1691 (1691)	Wing S4963; ESTC R37587	16,587	18

whole Army The Fort was Quadrangular consisting of four Flankers with a Curtain between each on each Flanker were mounted five Guns the Walls were of Stone about twenty Foot high surrounded with a deep Ditch twelve Foot wide over which was a narrow wooden Bridge In the middle of the Fort were two Mounts thrown up for Batteries there was also a Well but upon firing the Guns the Water would instantly dry away There was Store of Provision Liquors and Powder but they wanted Shot In retaking this Island we had about an hundred Men killed and wounded the Island in general is very Strong there being several small Fortifications and Breast-works all round except where it is naturally fortisied with Hills or Shoals The Inhabitants were about eighteen hundred Men besides Women and Children and Negroes all which except the Negroes which were to be divided as plunder were transported to the Island of Hispaniola only some particular Persons had the favour granted them to be carried up to Martineco After a Weeks Refreshment the Major General on Sunday the 20th of the said Month of July Imbarqued with his own Regiment in the Sloops and the Marine Regiment on board the Frigots and set sail for the Island of St. Eustace and the same Evening lying before the said Island he sent Captain Hamilton on Shoar with a Flag of Truce to Summons the Island to surrender who returned with an answer from the Governour that he would defend it to the utmost the next Morning the 21st the Frigots began to Batter against the Fort and the Major General landed at the same time with his Men under a high Cliff which they ascended being got up they had not marched far before they perceived some Dutch Colours in the Woods upon which a Party was sent to discover them who returned with an Account that it was Colonel Scorer the Governour of the Island for the Dutch when the French took it with one hundred Men under his Command who came from Saba and landed there three days before but not having strength enough to take the Fort into which the Inhabitants were fled he designed to get what Plunder he could and so go off again He refused to joyn with the Major General because he was first landed so accordingly went off the next day The Major General proceeded in his march towards the Fort and encamped within Musket Shot of it under the rising of a small Hill the next day the Marine Regiment landed and the Shovels Pickaxes c. being brought on Shore they began their Intrenchments running their Trench along by the Fort within Musket Shot of it After five Days siege the Enemy sent out a Flag of Truce with Articles but they were so high in their demands that the Major General refused them and returned an answer if they did not descend to more reasonable terms within three days he would grant them no Quarter Within the prescribed time they came out again with a Flag of Truce and surrendred themselves and their Fort upon Quarter for life to march out with their Baggage Their Fort contained sixteen great Guns it was surrounded with double Rows of Stakes the Intervals fill'd with Earth and without that strong Pallisadoes and on the outside of them a deep Ditch over which was a very narrow Bridge leading into the Gate admitting but one at a time the Besieged were about sixty men the Women and Children being sent off some time before they had a Well for Water and about twenty Barrels of Flower some Salt-Fish and Pork and a small Quantity of Ammunition they behaved themselves very briskly during the siege especially the Governour who was very active in firing the great Guns c. In taking this Island we had not above Eight Men kill'd and wounded The Major General leaving one Company upon the Island under the Command of Lieutenant John Mack-Arthur returned to St. Christophers with the whole Fleet carrying the Inhabitants Prisoners thither and afterwards transporting them to Hispaniola Lieutenant Pilkinton was afterwards sent down with a Company out of the Duke of Bolton's Regiment to relieve Lieutenant Mack-Arthur and he still continues there for the Defence of the said Island The Inhabitants of the Island of St. Bartholomews who were brought up Prisoners from thence to Nevis being sent down to St Christophers before that Island was retaken there met with their Wives and Families and after that Island was retaken they were desirous to live under an English Government upon which the Captain General gave them Liberty to return to their Island transporting them thither and granted a Commission to one Captain le Grand a former Inhabitant among them to be their Governour and to keep and defend the Island in the name and behalf of their Majesties King William and Queen Mary under which Government it still continues In the latter end of October this Relator's Concerns calling him home to England he left the Caribby Islands the Captain General having then issued out Orders for the mustering their Majesties Forces and getting them in a readiness to Imbarque upon a farther Expedition against Guadalupe and other French Islands leaving a Garrison upon St. Christophers under the Command of Lieutenant Colonel Not. Thus you have a brief and plain Relation of the Success of the English Arms in the Caribby Islands and it may reasonably be concluded that as the English Affairs there have hitherto been happily prosperous so being under the management and Conduct of such prudent and active Generals and promoted by the forwardness of the Souldiery but principally by a Divine Blessing attending upon their Endeavours they will soon put a succesful Period to those troublesome Wars and root the French Interests out of that part of the World FINIS

A True and Faithful RELATION OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE FORCES of Their MAJESTIES K. WILLIAM and Q. MARY In their Expedition against the FRENCH IN THE Caribby Islands IN THE WEST-INDIES Under the Conduct of His Excellency Christopher Codrington Captain General and Commander in Chief of the said Forces In the Years 1689 and 1690. Written by THOMAS SPENCER Jun. Secretary to the Honourable Sir Timothy Thornhil Baronet to whose Regiment he was Muster-Master and supplied the Place of Commissary London Printed for Robert Clavel at the Peacock at the West-End of St. Paul's Church-yard 1691. To the Right Honourable EDWARD RUSSEL Admiral of Their Majesties Fleet for the Year 1691. Treasurer of Their Majesties Navy and one of the Lords of Their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council Right Honourable I Might justly imagin my self to be thought rude and impertinent when I first presumed to tender this Account to your Honour and I should never have adventured upon so great a Boldness if I had not thought it really my Duty to present it to your Honours View And the Reason which moved me to it was because the most notable Actions herein related as the taking of St. Christophers and St. Eustace were the immediate Success of part of that Royal Navy which your Honour now happily commands in Chief I mean that Squadron commanded by Admiral Wright in the West Indies without which it had been utterly impossible for the English to have enterprized any thing in those Parts For their Majesties Islands there were so depopulated by a raging Mortality that the surviving Inhabitants were even harrassed with a daily Fatigue to defend themselves Vpon this Motive joyn'd with the Consideration of the innate Generosity which is generally found in all Persons so Nobly and Honourably descended as your self but is so peculiar to the most Noble Family of Bedford and with which as you are a Principal Branch thereof so you are principally adorned I first assumed the Blodness to address you Honour with a Copy of this Relation and the high Favour you were pleased to vouchsafe me in your Perusal and Approbation of it when it was a Manuscript hath encouraged me not only to send it to the Press but hath also emboldened me to implore your Patronage to countenance it with which it will be sufficiently honoured and defended and may boldly appear in Publick But for the return of so high an Obligation as it transcends the utmost of my Hopes to accomplish so I must confess my Incapacity to make any farther Advances towards it than an humble and grateful Acknowledgement which shall ever be paid with the strictest Observance by him who craves leave to subscribe himself Right Honourable Your Honour 's Most Humbly Devoted and Obedient Servant Thomas Spencer A True and Faithful Relation OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THEIR Majesties Forces IN THE CARRIBBY ISLANDS THE Design of this small Treatise is to give a Succinct Relation of the Proceedings of their Majesties Forces in the Caribby-Islands and in a plain and Compendious Method a faithful Narrative of the most remarkable Transactions from the beginning of the War to this present time Only I must desire to be excused in the Omission of noting the particular Days of the Month in some places The loss of some Papers having forced me to be less exact in the Performance of that than I could wish but as that is not absolutely material and per se but only circumstantial and per Accidens I presume it may the more easily be pardoned But before I fall upon the intended Matter I think it not amiss to shew the first grounds and Reasons of the Differences which have happened in those parts Be pleased then to know that the Island of St. Christophers hath formerly been a Stage of War between the English and French But of late Years Matters being accommodated and the Island divided between them they have each of them lived under their own Government and an Act of Neutrality hath passed by the Consent of both their Kings to the Intent they might there enjoy a quiet and an Uninterrupted Peace notwithstanding any Wars that might happen between the two Crowns in Europe But the French being a fickle and inconstant People broke through all those Considerations and before the Wars were Proclaimed between England and France prompted by some private Animosities of their own and animated by the Instigations and Impulsions of some Irish upon the Island in the Month of July 1689 entred the English ground with Fire and Sword forcing the Inhabitants to fly to the Fort for their safety The English being in this Distress applied themselves to the Government of Barbados for Assistance upon which application the Honourable Sir Timothy Thornhil Baronet offered himself to go at the Head of a Regiment to their Relief to which the Governour Council and assembly assenting the Drums beat up for Voluntiers and in less than a Fortnight there was raised a Regiment of seven Hundred able Men all which the Commissioned Officers excepted were fitted with Arms c. for the said Expedition at the Cost and Charges of the Island of Barbados convenient Vessels being also provided for the transporting them to the Island of St. Christophers All things being in a Readiness they Imbarqued and set Sail on Thursday the first of August and on Monday following being the Fifth of the said Month they arrived at the Island of Antigua where they received the unwelcome News that the Fort at St. Christophers was surrendred to the French on Monday the 29th of July upon Articles and the English sent off to the adjacent Island of Nevis Affairs being thus Stated Sir Timothy Thornhil knowing his Strength to be inconsiderable to attack an Island so well mann'd and fortified as St. Christophers And the Government of Antigua also solliciting him to continue with them till the Arrival of the English Fleet which was daily expected he agreed to their Proposals and landed his Regiment there quartering them in the Town of Falmouth After a Months Continuance in the said Island Lieutenant General Codrington sent three Sloops Man'd with fourscore of Sir Timonthy's Regiment under the Command of Captain Edward Thorne to fetch their Majesties Subjects with their Goods and Stock from the Island of Anguilla where they were miserably abused and destroyed by some Irish which the French had put on Shore amongst them Before and during Sir Timothy's Stay in Antigua the Indians of the Neighbouring Islands who were in League with the French landed several times upon the said Island killing those Inhabitants that lived near to the Sea to the Number of Ten and then making their Escape in their swift Periaquas notwithstanding the best Sailing Sloops were sent in pursuit of them but by the Diligence of the Lieutenant General in placing Guards at all the Bays and landing Places those Incursions were afterwards prevented About the middle of September a French Privateer landing at Five Islands near Antigua had taken